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vJailbreak: Your Open-Source, K8s-Native Escape Pod from VMware

DEV Community·Leo·18 days ago
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In the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, IT teams everywhere are staring down the barrel of "license-shock" and overhauled pricing models. If you're looking for a low-cost, automated, and scalable exit strategy, vJailbreak is the tool you need in your belt. Developed by Platform9, vJailbreak is an open-source, Kubernetes-native migration engine designed to pull VMs out of VMware vCenter and drop them into any OpenStack-compatible cloud (including Platform9 Private Cloud Director). The Feature Set Feature The TL;DR Auto-Discovery Connects to vCenter and enumerates every VM and config automatically. Disk Conversion Handles the heavy lifting of converting VMDK to QCOW2 via virt-v2v . Hot & Cold Migration Supports both offline moves and live migrations. Incremental Sync Leverages VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for data delta sync. Storage Offloading Native copy offloading for compatible arrays like Pure Storage.…

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